Richelle Mead Quotes

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.

I can't sleep. Too many thoughts running through my useless head.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

My mind is always racing.

My brain is just always going and going and going.

I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

I've one of those brains that doesn't quieten down.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

My thoughts are ridiculously loud and fast.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

My mind is always racing with ideas or things I should be doing.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

I don't know if I can relax. Relax, I can't do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

I have a mind that never stops working. As a matter of fact, it torments me.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.